"The Bridge Stallion"

There are several unidentified ponies we're looking for information on. If you have any information or pictures of these ponies please contact us!

 

This was a stallion in the 70's and 80's. He's pictured in the 1978 book Island of Wild Horses by Jack Denton Scott. He disappears from photos in the late 1980s. We've been calling him The Bridge Stallion. Stallions back then often were called by the area they lived and he usually lived around or under the Assateague causeway bridge. He's too far back to have had a registered name but we were wondering if there were other names he was known by.

 

 

Unknown Palomino Pinto Mare

There are several unidentified ponies we're looking for information on.  If you have any information or pictures of these ponies please contact us!

 

The palomino pinto is a mare born in 1993, as her brand indicates. These screenshots were taken in 1995. She would have had another brand on her left shoulder with an identification number which would link to a registered name.

Unknown Bay Pinto Stallion

There are several unidentified ponies we're looking for information on. If you have any information or pictures of these ponies please contact us!

 

This bay pinto stallion is from the early to mid 1990's, possibly earlier. The left photo is from 1993 and he also briefly appears in a Kratts Creatures episode filmed that year. The left photo is from 1995 and he disappears from photos after that. He would have had a registered name and identification number. The identification number would have been branded on his left shoulder from 1994 onward.

 

 

Unknown Black Pinto Mare

There are several unidentified ponies we're looking for information on. If you have any information or pictures of these ponies please contact us!

This black pinto mare was born sometime in the late 1970s (right photo is from 1978) and was last photographed in 1999. She's sometimes mistaken for Mappy. She would have had a registered name and an identification number. The identification number would have been branded on her left shoulder from 1994 onward.

  

Unknown Bay Pinto Stallion

 There are several unidentified ponies we're looking for information on. We're going to be posting one weekly. If you have any information or pictures of these ponies please contact us!

This bay pinto stallion is from the early to mid 1990's. These pictures are from 1997 and he had a small herd of mares at the time. He would have had a registered name and identification number. The identification number would have been branded on his left shoulder.

 

 

1994, 1995, and 1997 Foal Lists

Foal lists from 1994, 1995, and 1997 have been added to Feral Foal Watch. You'll probably notice that they are very short compared to the other years. We don't have auction notes from these 3 years. All ponies listed are owner submissions, have been spotted in photos, or found in other places. We're working on linking photo albums of the foals we have pictures of. There's ponies with unknown parents from those years in the database, however they must have at least one parent to appear on the list.

Foal Photos 2009-2014

Foal photos from 2009 to 2014 are now linked to pony database records.  Thanks to Sarah Boudreau of Chincoteague Pony History for contributing her photos from 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Lois Szymanski's auction albums from 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 have been a Chincoteague community resource for many years and she has allowed us to re-host her photos in our archive albums. Thanks to you both!

We're diligently working to link photos of as many Assateague born foals as possible to help make identification of ponies easier. If you have photos you'd like to contribute please contact us!

Chincoteague Pony Identification Program

The CPPD is part of the ICPAR's Chincoteague Pony Identification Program. We also use the parameters from the post below for including a submitted pony into the database, whether it's eventually registered with the International Chincoteague Pony Association & Registry or not.

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Due to some recent events in the Chincoteague Pony community, we thought this might be a good time to explain how we evaluate and determine if a pony is an authentic Chincoteague Pony or not.

This might surprise you but it isn’t unusual for a pony to pop up in an online ad with the label “Chincoteague pony” but unless the poster has the pony registered or is able to offer proof of the pony’s heritage, it’s very unlikely that the pony is as advertised. In fact, one of our most popular programs is our free “Chincoteague Pony Identification Program” and of the ID requests we have each year, less than 15% of the ponies can be verified as authentic Chincoteague Ponies. As you can imagine, there are a lot of disappointed owners but in order to protect the breed, we take great care in confirming a pony’s identity before recognizing it as a Chincoteague Pony. How does the program work and what do we look for before we accept a pony into the registry? Please read on!

 

Submitting an ID request is very simple, owners can either send us an email or fill out a form on our Chincoteague Pony ID page (https://www.chincoteagueponyassociation.com/chincoteague-pony-identification.html). We always suggest the owners send us as much information about their pony as possible. This includes, but is not limited to, the pony’s: name, age, height, sex, any paperwork they have for it, the farm it came from or past owner’s name, sire or dam, and photos clearly showing the pony and any markings it might have. The more information that an owner can provide, the better the chance we might be able to ID the pony.

 

Once we receive the pony’s information, it is reviewed by several of our staff members and we look for anything that can provide us with a lead as to who the pony is or if there is something that would indicate the pony’s heritage. Some of the questions we ask are:

1. Do they have some form of paperwork or paper trail to follow?

2. Does the pony meet the breed standards? (color, height, conformation)

3. Does it have any identifiable markings? Ponies that don’t have any markings or some form of paperwork to confirm where/who they came from typically stop here.

4. Can we match the pony to any of the foals that came from the island in or around the time frame it was said to have been born/sold?

5. Does it match any of the ponies from known breeders?

6. If it isn’t from a known breeder, can we verify its parentage?

7. Are there any reputable people in the Chincoteague pony community who are familiar with the pony and can help confirm its heritage?

8. If the owner decides to do DNA testing, do the breed composition results match the currently tested Chincoteague Ponies, is it a 1st, 2nd or 3rd degree relative of two or more of the currently DNA tested ponies in partner lab’s (Etalon Equine Genetics) database, and is it unanimously approved by ICPAR board?

9. If the owner claims the pony is a Half Chincoteague, can we confirm its sire or dam is a full Chincoteague by using the criteria in 1-8

 

If the pony isn’t verified, then we will not recognize it as a Chincoteague pony. Owners are always welcome to send more information on their pony for re-evaluation and we will keep their pony’s information on file in case we come across a match in the future.

 

We hope as time goes on, that more and more ponies will be registered and there will be fewer ID requests. That being said, if you own a Chincoteague pony PLEASE make sure that you register it and if you have to sell it, make sure that its papers go with it. The Chincoteague pony is a small breed (an estimated 2,000 currently living ponies) it is very important that we preserve them and their bloodlines so everyone can continue to enjoy the breed for years to come!

If you have a pony you would like us to ID, have registration questions or any information that might help us ID ponies in the future, please reach out!

https://www.chincoteagueponyassociation.com/contact.html

Auction of Fall 2024 Foals

 

The online auction of the four late born foals begins on Monday. The auction site to view and bid: https://internethorseauctions.com/auction-ptb.php?aucid=556

Feral Foal Watch has been updated with their auction numbers: https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/allfoalwatch.php

The four foals are:

Gracey 2024: https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/pedigree.php?id=3929

Scottiee's ET 2024: https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/pedigree.php?id=3931

Courtney's Island Dove 2024: https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/pedigree.php?id=3933

Loveland's Secret Feather 2024: https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/pedigree.php?id=3934

Foal Photos from 1999 & 2000

 

Thanks to a generous donation by Jaye Okolovitch pictures of the 1999 and 2000 foals are now linked to their database records! To view go to Feral Foal Watch and select those years from the drop down menu. https://chincoteaguepedigrees.com/pedigree/allfoalwatch.php

Auction notes taken by Debbie Elliot-Fisk and the late Jean Bonde allowed the photos to be matched up to the foal’s identity.

There are more photos from Jaye from 2005 to 2011 that are in process of being added as well. Huge thanks to Jaye for the generous donation! And to Kathleen Cahall for facilitating it!

New Blog for the CPPD

Welcome to the blog for the Chincoteague Pony Pedigree Database.  Important announcements about the database will be posted to the blog as well as to our Facebook page.